1 What are they?

1.1 text

“A prolonged discrete anomalously warm water event that can be described by its duration, intensity, rate of evolution, and spatial extent.”

Hobday et al. (2016)

1.2 figure

1.3 Definition

1.3.1 Time series

1.3.2 Daily boxes

1.3.3 Thresholds

1.3.4 Flames

1.3.5 Lollis

1.4 Marine Cold-spells

2 Why should we care?

2.1 GBR

2.2 The Blob

2.2.1 Fish

2.2.2 Birds

2.2.3 Mammals

2.3 The NW Atlantic

2.3.1 Crabs

2.3.2 Lobsters

3 What are we doing about it?

3.1 International Working Group

http://www.marineheatwaves.org/

3.3 Open source code

3.4 DISP

“Homarus americanus”

3.4.1 Temperature

3.4.2 CPUE

4 Questions?

References

Hobday, Alistair J., Lisa V. Alexander, Sarah E. Perkins, Dan A. Smale, Sandra C. Straub, Eric C.J. Oliver, Jessica A. Benthuysen, et al. 2016. “A hierarchical approach to defining marine heatwaves.” Progress in Oceanography 141: 227–38. doi:10.1016/j.pocean.2015.12.014.